Introspective and overweight Anais is 12 and bears the weight of the world on her shoulders. Her body is both a citadel for her pain and a fortress. Hidden in the shadows or rejected, she is an observer. It′s summer, with a family holiday by the sea and summer romance. It′s Anais′s first experience of love but she makes this discovery by proxy. She observes her older sister, Elena, whom she loves (and hates). Elena is fifteen and diabolically beautiful. She doesn′t realize that she is no more than an object of desire. And, as an object, all she can do is be taken. Or be had. Indeed, this is the subject, the loss of girls′ virginity. And which opens the door to tragedy that summer.